Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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mutter

UK /ˈmʌtə/ · US /ˈmʌtɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms mutters muttering muttered matar

  1. noun A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. “The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.”
  2. verb (transitive, intransitive) To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath. “You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.”
  3. verb To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations. “The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.”
  4. verb To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise. “April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.”
  5. noun (Indian cuisine) Peas.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

growl grumble mumble babble murmur ramble stutter putter rumble fumfer mouth muttering murmuring murmuration mussitation grumbling maunder mussitate croak gnarl

Etymology

From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.
Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complains or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.
  2. verb To sound with a low, rumbling noise.
  3. verb To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats. Shak.
  4. noun Repressing or obscure utterance.

Etymology [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. muttire, mutire.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mutter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “mutter” (best matches first).